[ti:English Writer Kazuo Ishiguro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese-born English writer, [00:04.52]has won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. [00:10.16]The Swedish Academy made the announcement Thursday in Stockholm. [00:15.56]Sara Danius, the academy's secretary, praised the work of Ishiguro. [00:23.04]She said, "He's a very interesting writer in many ways." [00:28.28]"If you mix Jane Austen and Franz Kafka, [00:34.43]then you have Ishiguro in a nutshell." [00:40.76]Danius described him as "one of the most exquisite novelists in our time." [00:47.52]His best-known work is "The Remains of the Day," [00:51.52]which was published in 1989. [00:55.40]It tells of a man who worked as a butler, [00:58.80]the main male servant in the home of a rich person. [01:03.40]He looks back on a life in service to the wealthy. [01:07.76]The book deepens into a darker story of the repressed emotional [01:13.32]and social environment of 20th-century England. [01:18.40]The work earned Ishiguro the Man Booker Prize in 1989. [01:24.60]The 1993 film version of "The Remains of the Day" [01:28.64]starred Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. [01:32.96]It was nominated for eight Academy Awards. [01:37.88]The choice of Ishiguro for the Nobel Prize marked a return to traditional literature [01:43.96]following two years of unconventional choices by the Swedish Academy. [01:50.28]Last year, the literature prize went to American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan. [01:57.24]In 2015, it went to Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus, [02:03.84]an investigative journalist. [02:06.92]Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan. [02:11.28]He moved with his family to Britain when he was five years old. [02:16.84]Although he did not return to Japan until he was in his 30s, [02:21.08]Japanese characters were important in his first two novels: [02:25.72]"A Pale View of Hills" and "An Artist of the Floating World." [02:31.32]The writer will receive $1.1 million in prize money [02:36.32]for winning the literature award. [02:39.92]I'm Jonathan Evans. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM